English-Russian glossary of linguistics terms. 2014.
Parasitic gap — In grammar, a parasitic gap is a construction wherein the dropping of a verb s argument is dependent on a co referential argument having been fronted in a preceding context. An English example is:: Which book did she review without reading ? The… … Wikipedia
Wh-movement — (or wh fronting or wh extraction) is a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh words ) show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh words appear at the… … Wikipedia
John Grinder — Infobox Linguist region = era = color = #B0C4DE name = John Grinder image size = image caption = John Grinder birth = 1940 United States death = school tradition = Linguistics main interests = Transformational grammar, NLP modeling, Cybernetic… … Wikipedia
Syntax — Syntactic redirects here. For another meaning of the adjective, see Syntaxis. For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). Linguistics … Wikipedia
Transformational grammar — In linguistics, a transformational grammar, or transformational generative grammar (TGG), is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in a Chomskyan tradition. Additionally, transformational grammar is the… … Wikipedia
Knut Tarald Taraldsen — is a Norwegian linguist working in Tromsø, Norway as a senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL).His work mostly concerns syntactic theory. He did early, ground breaking work on parasitic gaps (roughly… … Wikipedia
Jonathan Nissenbaum — is an assistant professor of linguistics at McGill University. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2000 for his thesis entitled Investigations of Covert Phrase Movement . His research interests include parasitic gaps, covert movement, Wh movement,… … Wikipedia
List of syntactic phenomena — A list of phenomena in syntax. * Anaphora * Agreement * Antecedent contained deletion * Differential Object Marking * Case * Clitics * Control * Dummy pronouns * Ergative verb * Existential clauses * Expletives * Heavy NP shift * Inverse copula… … Wikipedia
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
animal — animalic /an euh mal ik/, animalian /an euh may lee euhn, mayl yeuhn/, adj. /an euh meuhl/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well defined shape and usually limited growth, can move… … Universalium
tropical rainforest — Introduction also spelled tropical rain forest luxuriant forest, generally composed of broad leaved trees and found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator. Rainforests are vegetation types dominated by broad leaved trees … Universalium
